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Quote by Harold MacMillan
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. – Harold MacMillan

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Always listen to experts. Theyll tell you what cant be done and why. Then do it. – Robert A. Heinlein

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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. – Felix Frankfurter

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Whats an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesnt know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesnt admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesnt really know how much. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause. – Herbert Marshall

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